Description

Learn about the value of the collaboration of a design charrette in the design of a new home community.

Benefits of the charrette process: 

• Accelerate the design process, creating early momentum for a project 
• Create a stronger and more cohesive vision and brand for the project by bringing architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design together to integrate solutions 
• Gain consensus by having the right stakeholders and decision makers at the table 
• Create a sense of ownership among team members, including those who wouldn’t typically be involved early in a project (such as the sales team)

Members of the design team at Jeffrey DeMure + Associates Architects Planners (JD+A) will walk through a case study of Beazer’s Sacramento community The Cove (MAME 2023 Master-Planned Community of the Year), which was designed through the charrette process. 

Learn how this unique design experience works and how it can benefit future projects.

BRIDGE Education: What's A Design Charrette Presentation
Friday, March 1, 2024
8:30am-11:00am, includes breakfast and optional tour of The Cove
Four Points Sheraton, 4900 Duckhorn Drive, Sacramento, 95834

$40 BRIDGE (young professionals under 35 years of age or in the home building industry less than 5 years)
$60 Non-BRIDGE BIA Members
$150 Banner Sponsorship, includes 1 registration, bring your self-standing banner to display
$200 Breakfast Sponsor, includes 1 registration, logo on breakfast station, bring your self-standing banner to display
$25 BRIDGE Engineers (BRIDGE's board of directors)

The word charrette is French for cart or chariot. It's use in relation to design and planning arose in the 19th century at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where it was not unusual at the end of a term for teams of student architects to work right up until a deadline, when a charrette would be wheeled among them to collect up their scale models and other work for review. 

As the story goes, the students would jump on the cart to furiously continue applying the finishing touches, which came to be referred to as working en charrette, "in the cart.” 

The term has evolved into the current design-related usage to refer to intense collaborative sessions intended to progress a project significantly over a condensed period of time.